1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2<html> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> 5 <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> 6 <title>ntp-wait - waits until ntpd is in synchronized state</title> 7 <link href="scripts/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> 8 </head> 9 <body> 10 <h3><tt>ntp-wait</tt> - waits until ntpd is in synchronized state</h3> 11 <hr> 12 <h4>Synopsis</h4> 13 <p><tt>ntp-wait [ -v ] [ -n <i>tries</i> ] [ -s <i>seconds</i> ]</tt></p> 14 <h4>Description</h4> 15 <p>The <tt>ntp-wait</tt> program blocks until ntpd is in synchronized state. 16 This can be useful at boot time, to delay the boot sequence 17 until after "ntpd -g" has set the time. 18 <h4>Command Line Options</h4> 19 <dl> 20 <dt><tt>-n <i>tries</i></tt> 21 <dd>Number of tries before giving up. The default is 1000. 22 <dt><tt>-s <i>seconds</i></tt> 23 <dd>Seconds to sleep between tries. The default is 6 seconds. 24 <dt><tt>-v</tt> 25 <dd>Be verbose. 26 </dl> 27 <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="scripts/footer.txt"></script> 28 </body> 29 30</html> 31